Professional Killer - A Poem

By Author: Nevine Al Seidi
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No real civilisation is possible as long as men have jobs like: Professional Killers
Someone sent me a note today saying: " You won't change my mind about "liberating Iraq". I knew that that 'someone' was a professional killer; what I did not know was that he was reading me, from Iraq!!!!!! Here is a poem dedicated to him and all his colleagues in Iraq. Professional Killer Do not change your mind! Since you are hired To do this job Make sure your children fed From sipping children's blood Can't change your mind If it is your chore To kill off shore If your gear is a gun.. Who cares About someone else's son? It is your job Not to have a mind of your own Obey the commandment! Eat and sleep And pray to be home! Kill! Don't think instead! Don't change your mind Until you're dead! About the Author Al Seidi, Nevine, Egyptian-born (1961) obtained her BA in English Literature(Honours) from Alexandria University Egypt. She grew up in an artistic literary home where her dad acted and wrote scripts while keeping a private office of law as a Solicitor. ...
... To please him, she had to read the concise version of Shakespeare at 8 for her summer holiday. She trained as a painter at 6 under the patronage of world-famous Seif Wanli. At the age of 13, she started composing poetry in both English and Arabic. She won many contests as a painter and a poet. She has been a writer to her own circle of literary society, eversince. At the age of 18, she started getting interested in fashion seriously.She was determined to follow a career in fashion albeit studing literature. Highly, interested in theology, philosophy,sociology, economics, politics and very well informed in fashion, beauty and business. She tapped into various professions, before a career in fashion that ended at the threshold of creative writing again.Her moment of initiation was the birth of her only son Omar,now3. "Suddenly, the fashion world seemed a little too selfish a pursuit; motherhood anchored me to the reality of things. Unfortuanately, reality is not as beautiful as the fashion world" - She explains. She is an active journalist writer and poet with a deep interest in political and social affairs. She writes on many web sites on various subjects as well as various publications and periodicals. As a poet, she is published in the US. Some of her work appear in an anthology published by the L ibrary of Congress entitled: Nature's Echoes One of her most interesting poems is published in Millennium Poets by Cader Publisheing. The Poem is titled : Surrogate God . Though amusing, it hardly expresses the poet's belief. It is rather an expression of a mood. She is presently writing her first book: The Cultural Predicament of the Third World The Ethical vs. the Ethnical